Re: Ban waves
On 27/12/2016 at 0:09 PM, A_Troll said:Here’s an interesting fact gathered from an “official source”.
I don’t know how much of this is true. I do trust the person who told me this but as he said it is very “sketchy” due to the secrecy within the company.
The general theory (in the company) was that the first ban wave was a compilation of two things.
1. Leaked mod users.
2. The servers reporting winrate jumps. (Apparently winrate or/and stat jumps are flagged on the servers. WGs policy on that is that if your WR suddenly jumps a lot…….. you are cheating).
I asked about reading res_mods folder etc. and the answer was “Not really necessary”.
Interesting answer.
Apparently the banned users are being monitored. WG expects their WR to fall and if they don’t, they are still cheating. Bad news for good players I guess. I asked about the second banwave and I got the answer “we shall see”.
Now, I’m pretty sure that the TT mod had something to do with the bans and I wonder if that was a smoke screen due to the fact that mod-check is not possible or if it actually worked. However, the second ban wave might shed some light. I know of a couple of people who are running clients with different mod settings to see what gets banned and what doesn’t. I’m interested to see if anyone else had a winrate jump just before the ban. I was one who did but that was because I was seal-clubbing and farming free XP for the Swedish line. My stats jumped a lot and I got banned. Yes, I was using illegal mods but the stat jump was NOT because of that.
I think that these two things are wrong at least in my case…… I was one of the “lucky” banned players and 1. i was only downloading mods without paying and my nickname is different, therefore nobody could have known who I am and 2. my winrate dropped the last 2 months before the ban from 53,5 to 52,05 due to the “curse” that wg dropped on all my german tanks (i was grinding the grille 15 line with unbelievably bad matchmaking all the time). After the ban i dont play a lot but winrate started to go up again…. does this mean that i ‘ll get banned again without confirming if I am cheating or not?
I am sure that they have a way to know all players who cheat, how they choose who to ban or not is a mystery though.